Write 8 page essay on the topic Complete Sanctification- Critique on Becoming Christlike Disciples by H. Ray Dunning.Download file to see previous pages... There is, however a well explained overall t

Write 8 page essay on the topic Complete Sanctification- Critique on Becoming Christlike Disciples by H. Ray Dunning.

There is, however a well explained overall theme that is underlined in prefaces and epilogues. Part I focuses on sanctification, also referred to as holiness, which is one of the key terms that are given prominence in Wesleyan theology. The author explores the ambiguous way that this term has been used by Jewish and Christian writers. Ten chapters of explanation follow, starting with the Old and New Testament usage of the word sanctification, and then linking it with other major concepts such as justification, the Image of God, the Spirit, etc. The aim of this approach is to show how this idea can be approached from different angles, and how all-round understanding can be gained by seeing what meanings it has in these different contexts. Part II Concentrates on the concept of the Fruit of the Spirit and following the same pattern as Part I, it introduces the concept, explains its multiple meanings, and then in separate chapters pursues a list of separate manifestations of the Fruit of the Spirit such as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness etc. The author warns specifically against confusing these divine gifts with ordinary personality traits, which every person possesses and which are not necessarily evidence of the working of the Holy Spirit in a person’s life. ...

This shows that the book is intended for quite serious study, as well as practical application in the reader’s own life. The author’s strongest arguments. From the outset it is made very clear that the Bible is the core of all the ideas that follow in the two major sections. The author emphasizes this when he writes “Both works found here were presented with the same intention, to make available a biblically sound, consistently Wesleyan interpretation of the doctrine and experience of holiness understandable by the average Christian” (p. 6). Passages of scripture spring out from every page, and with the result that in reading this book the reader inevitably grows closer to the content of scripture, finding out a great deal of information about what the Bible actually says on the subject of sanctification. From time to time there is some explanation of the writings of John Wesley or other scholars in this same tradition. Chapter 4 of Part I, for example, starts with a six line quotation from John Wesley’s sermons and leads back from there to the letters of St. Paul, and this tactic traces a continuous line of teaching about sanctification right back from modern times to New Testament times. The author explains how holiness is to be understood as Christlikeness, which is what happens when people have an on-going relationship with the risen Christ in their lives. In the following chapter the Wesleyan scholar and missionary E. Stanley Jones is cited, explaining how holiness is an expression of divine power, but in a humble and sacrificial way, rather than a triumphal way.